Hoppers Family Market and Pharmacy

In the fall of 2009, the old OEC Building, located in the town on Hwy. 69 was left vacated. It was a large 40,000 square foot metal frame warehouse. In the spring of 2010, the OEC Warehouse went up for sale. Mr. Randall Shed contacted Mike and Jimmie Hopper. Mike was no stranger to the grocery store business. He was literally raised in a grocery store. His Dad and Mom, Jack and Imogene Hopper, owned and operated Hoppers General Merchandise in Eva. This store sold everything from a full service gas station, to clothes and apparel, shoes, grain, animal feed, hardware and plumbing supplies and a grocery store with a fresh meat butcher shop. As Mike became a teenager, he was trained by his Dad to cut meat and worked in the family business as a meat butcher, until he went off to Auburn University.